Grace: a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool

|Copyright|License|
|Screenshots |Gallery |Download|
|FAQ |User's Guide |Tutorial |History|
|Mailing List Archives |Suggestions and bug reports|
|Developer's corner|

Introduction

Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif. Grace runs on practically any version of Unix-like OS. As well, it has been successfully ported to VMS, OS/2, and Win9*/NT/XP (some minor functionality may be missing, though).

Grace is a descendant of ACE/gr, also known as Xmgr.

Features
Grace features at a glance:

General

- WYSIWYG design
- Convenient point-and-click graphical user interface
- Precise control of graph features
- True publication quality
- Graphs refresh almost instantly

| Export Options

- Exports high-resolution graphics to (E)PS, PDF, MIF, and SVG formats
- Supports cross-platform PNM, JPEG and PNG formats
- Device-independent Type1 font rastering, including anti-aliasing, ligatures and kerning

Graphing Flexibility

- Unlimited number of graphs
- Unlimited number of curves on a graph
- Up to 256 customizable colors
- 9 dashed line styles
- 32 fill patterns
- 10 built-in marker symbols; plus, any character glyph from any font can be used as a marker
- Color/fill markers
- Text annotations with subscripts, superscripts, mixed fonts, styles and colors and more complex typesetting

Curve Fitting

- Linear and nonlinear least-squares
- Calculation and display of residuals
- Arbitrarily complex user-defined fitting functions, including dynamically loadable C/Fortran/... modules
- Fitting with constraints
- Region restrictions
- Fitting with arbitrary weight functions

Analysis Capability

- FFT
- Integration and differentiation
- Histograms
- Splines, including Akima splines
- Interpolation and smoothing
- Convolution, correlation, and covariation
- Sorting

Data Formats

- Unlimited data size; up to six dimensions plus an optional array of strings
- Reads text data input files
- Reads 1D netCDF files

Programmability

- Built-in programming language
- Math functions manipulate entire array
- Variables, including arrays (1D)
- User-definable functions via loadable modules
- All aspects of plot outlook can be programmed
- Controllable by external programs

Customization/Extensibility

- Dynamic module loading - write your own C/Fortran/...
- User-defined colors
- User-supplied fonts and encodings

Please refer to the Grace User's Guide for more detailed description.

Mailing lists

Grace has two general-purpose mailing lists: grace and grace-announce. The first one, unmoderated, serves for general discussions of Grace. You can subscribe to it by sending an email to grace-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il with no subject line and the only word 'Subscribe' (without quotes, of course) in the body of the message. You may instead wish to subscribe to the digest of the list by sending same email to grace-digest-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il. The digest is sent once in a three days or when its size exceeds 32K.

The moderated grace-announce list is for new version or serious bug fix announcements only (which are automatically relayed to the first mailing list, too). The address to send subscription requests is grace-announce-request@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il.

To unsubscribe from a list, same instructions apply, with "Subscribe" being replaced by "Unsubscribe".

There are mailing list archives available for browsing.

Suggestions and bug reports

If you found a bug in Grace or wish to suggest some improvements, please do it on-line.

The Grace Homepage | Web design: Copyleft © 1998-2000 Evgeny Stambulchik, slightly modified by Torsten Werner for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system